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Vassalise the World. A Byzantine Dream.

Well, this is my first AAR, so please forgive me if it ain't as good as the rest on here.

The idea behind it came from the EU2 forum today;

Originally Posted by Wtbrg

Has any one taken their cores and then vassalized all the other nations in war, without any expansion?
This is beyond my ability, but I wanted to know if there's an AAR of it or some thing.

I didn't think there was an AAR on it so I (perhaps foolishly) offered.

I am playing Byzantium, on the Age of Imperialism mod - 1337 scenario.
My house rules are;

1. No diplo-vassalisation. The challenge was for force vassalisations only.
2. No annexation or taking of provinces apart from cores.
3. The only expansion can be by establishing colonies or TPs.

Here we go!

The Empire of 1337. 3 little provinces and a whole lot of cores

This is as far as my empire will extend - no further.

Now the first war. I have heard that Hellas is nice this time of year

My armies blitzed through the land, and the campaign lasted for less than a year - well begun is half done!

Hmmm so many cores, so little time....

The Ottoman war lasted a bit longer.
Immediately after I declared war on them, I recieved information that Candar jumped in and did it too - damn copycats
They siege Angora, while I am playing ping pong armies with the Ottos - well it is Byzantium!
I don't want to have 3 wars with the Ottomans (or is that Ottomen? ) so Ideclare war on Candar too - just for fun! Teke joins in too, which is nice, 2 annexations for the price of 1

Ah, right. Then I get what you mean. I though that they were diplovassalised.

No, that would be cheating!
I even managed to avoid taking any land in my war with the Papal States - I couldn't vassalise them yet, their transports managed to sink my navy
I occupied their Italian provinces, but i couldn't get to their capital in Dauphin due to the lack of navy .

Originally Posted by Chief Ragusa

Obliging of Candar and Teke to jump in to the sea for you. Hopefully, the White Sheep Turks will be lemmings in training and throw their armies away.

Yes it was rather helpful of hem wasn't it! They had no army to speak of, just a few thousand men, but still Teke joined the war!
I hope the White Sheep Turks will help me too! They are all my cores, so I can annex them eventually!

It should not take you more than a couple of wars to annex the White Sheep Turks. Then where will you go?

I have got all but the capital from the White Sheep - I will annex them when the treaty lapses.

Now, another mini update!

Here the brave Byzantine army lays siege to the White Sheep Turks!

And the end result is this!
Now, I have ended up with a non-core province (by accident) in Tabriz - I will need it to annex the White Sheep though as their capital is one of my cores. The plan is to let it revolt away (to anyone) once I have annexed the White Sheep.

Next I headed West again! Serbia is my target, all its provinces are my cores and so they must be annexed - same goes for Bulgaria! Handy they're allies then!

All is going well, I take my cores from BUlgaria and am just making my peace with Serbia when the inevitable happens!